Subject: Re: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:18:42 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:46 -0400
> 
> With a proper following of the XDG spec, the concept of (a single)
> "user-emacs-directory" would no longer be present.

I'm not sure I understand why.  Can you tell more?  (I know very
little about XDG.)